Dear Doxygen developers, I am writing to you on behalf of the Debian project. There are a few issues with the doxygen package as shipped by Debian that are imho best addressed upstream. Please have a look at whether this is reasonable.
In http://bugs.debian.org/569504 Jonathan Nieder asked to include upstream changelogs and notes that these are only available from the website. Would it be possible to include changelogs in future release tarballs? The current way of shipping jquery in Doxygen poses a set of problems (mainly http://bugs.debian.org/625956) to Debian. In order to ship a package in the Debian main distribution the source code must be available in preferred form for modification. This is not the case with the version of jquery embedded in Doxygen tarballs, because they are minified. Would it be possible to additionally ship the original uncompressed javascript components in future release tarballs even if they are not used for building Doxygen? (Moving to wishlist stuff.) In addition it would be great to be able to use the system version jquery instead of Doxygen's copy. It is not clear how to achieve this in a way, that does not pose unreasonable burden on either upstream or the Debian packaging. Discussion on this issue has started on http://bugs.debian.org/630982 but has not come to a final conclusion. The question relevant here appears to be whether Doxygen upstream could document which versions of jquery (+ components) it needs to work properly. It would be interesting to know whether the javascript components, style sheets and icons shipped with one version of Doxygen could be used with an older version of Doxygen (possibly broken with major releases). That would allow us to move them to a package shared among documentation packages instead of having about 100 packages contain these copies. To get a rough idea on how many copies we currently ship, have a look at just the copies of the latest (packaged) version of doxygen.css: http://dedup.debian.net/hash/sha512/d43d1384010e768003ad5784c9a6af464046871f194dd069b7276aa06c9d96f5dbb9d6bc1faabe836c7713de9db31c54332803986d018f84c0856b410c597f74 Thanks for considering Helmut ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Doxygen-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/doxygen-develop
